by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A conversation about writing and publishing and the like.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A: It sounds like you have a book\u2014in your head, in your ear, maybe even on paper. It also sounds like you would like to one day have a book in your hand and maybe in the hands of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Tell me about what you have and where you would like to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: I would like to make lots of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Well, if that is your goal, I suggest working on other ideas instead of writing a book. The great and vast majority of books don’t make a cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: I would like to be published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Okay, that isn’t too difficult. Amazon, among many others today, has a system where you submit you book and then buy a few copies of it yourself for about $10 a copy. Now you have published a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: But what about the money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: See above. Sorry. Book writing very ever rarely brings any money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: I would like to be published by a real publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Write a complete book. Go to the web sites of about two dozen book publishers. Follow their instructions on how to propose a book. Some of them, perhaps one or two, will ask you for some sample chapters. Send them you complete book. If they like it, they will send you a contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: Now I make money!<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Maybe, but probably not. If your book is priced at $20, the book seller (the book store or web site that carries you book) keeps have or $10. That leave you and the publisher with $10. The standard publishing contract says that the author keeps 10% or 12% of the income. So, you get $1 for every copy of your book that sells for $20. If your book sells a million copies, you get $1,000,000. If it sells a hundred copies, you get $100. Most books sells less than a hundred copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: But when do I make a living?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Write a hundred books. $100 times one-hundred books is $10,000. I guess you better write a thousand books, so you can earn $100,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n B: But when do I make a living?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: In the daytime at your day job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: If I am working all day, when do I write these books?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: At night and on weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B: Why would I write at night and on weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Because you enjoy writing stories. You do it because you enjoy doing it. You can’t beat that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips A conversation about writing and publishing and the like. A: It sounds like you have a book\u2014in your head, in your ear, maybe even on paper. It also sounds like you would like to one day have a book in your hand and maybe in the hands of others. A: Tell me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,41,67,5],"tags":[272,163,187,128],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-money","category-work","category-writing","tag-jobs","tag-money","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}